An amazing characteristic of the Book of Revelation is its combination of joys and terrors. The book is full of this. This combination is strange to our minds. Yet thus it is. Seals are broken and judgments take their course. Trumpets are blown, vials are emptied of their terrible contents, and horrors are only thereby […]
“Hast not Thou made an hedge about him . . . ? Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?” (Job 1:10; 3:23) Job asks how life can be considered worth living under such conditions. Here he sits on the refuse heap outside his door, somewhere […]
A booklet bearing the title Prayer Changes Things was written by Dr. S. D. Gordon. It has made a deep impression on multitudes of Christians. In many homes these words may be found as a motto. We are all aware that prayer, believing prayer, does change things. We know also that many times the enemy […]
The word “selah” is frequently found in the Psalms, and stands for a musical sign, meaning “rest” or “pause.” Now the life of the Church and the believer resembles a psalm composed and set to music by the One who was “anointed with the oil of gladness above His fellows.” Such a view suggests some […]
The roots of Psalm 23 reach back deep into the rocky soil of Psalm 22. The sheep can only reach the green pastures of Psalm 23 because the Shepherd of Psalm 22 held on His way among the wasteland. The thorns are over there, and the green pastures are here, and “my” is the adoring […]
There is a prevalent idea today that though the righteous may be assured of reward in the coming world, they are generally speaking, unhappy here. The unrighteous, however, are largely free from trouble, it is suggested, whatever shadows may surround their future. If you want to lift this problem out of the mists of uncertainty […]
In July 15, 1992 there passed into the presence of the Lord a great woman whose life and death would not have been noticed by the world nor it’s press. Yet her’s was such a life of devotion for God that it should be an inspiration to us all. Marie Thomson was born of Scottish […]
The Church in the first blush of its love for the Man who died for them had a creed of just three words: “Christ is Lord.” It told them all they had come to know since they had put their trust in Him. The One who had come from God and went to God, had […]
“This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by […]